Russian "SUPER" plane?

[goodduck]

Cool video! Looks like that thing will need the world biggest jet and electric engines that are not available yet. I think they need to design the engine first. No good having that great big thing but don't have the engines to push it. And I think they have better chance making Avatar shuttle fly in real life than that plane. But the design still looks really cool, tho.

[mbauer]

Be interesting to see it go supersonic with winglets. Electric fans should work ok, main engine must be one big generator. All in all interesting looking concept, lifting body with wings, would be interesting to know what material they plan on using for the spars.

Guess when they say wings will use vectored thrust that the electric fans are exhausting through the trailing edge and can be angled.

Helicopters fly using vectored thrust.

Thanks for sharing interesting idea.

Mike

[nikischutt]

Looks cool, but it's just Russian propaganda.

It'll never go supersonic with those massive intakes, far too much drag.

Also, Russia wants these in service by 2024... Average R&D period for an aircraft is what 10-15 years? (indefinite if it's the F-35...).

[Thomas Meek]

The Russians have had a fascination with enormous airplanes since they first started flying. Some of them got built. I will take a Wait and See attitude about this one, but I hope they manage to build and fly at least one. What a sight that would be!

[kingjason14]

Originally Posted by nikischutt

Looks cool, but it's just Russian propaganda.

It'll never go supersonic with those massive intakes, far too much drag.

Also, Russia wants these in service by 2024... Average R&D period for an aircraft is what 10-15 years? (indefinite if it's the F-35...).

I was thinking the same about those giant compressor blades and supersonic flight, too much drag. And those wings look like they have less sweep then a 737. The landing gear looks a wee bit small for 200 tons.

[dhanners]

Cool-looking aircraft but I wonder about its utility in modern combat. Whomever uses it will definitely need air superiority. And the number of runways available to it is going to be limited. Yeah, you can haul a lot more in that thing than you can in a C-130, but you can also land a C-130 just about anywhere.

But if it extends the bounds of aerodynamics and engineering, I'm all for it.

[at6]

Any one up to giving us a paper model of it?

[piginapoke]

Would like a paper model too.

I emailed one of the authors of the article and ripped into him about one of the worst articles ive ever read.
Biassed, unfocussed and just plain ignorant. Not received a reply, unsurprisingly.

Good luck to the Russians.

[Plumdragon]

Well done to you, Sir, I'm sure he deserved everything you gave :-)

Having now watched the video, I really want to see this fly. The Russians have an uncanny knack of making the impossible, implausible and downright ridiculous into reality. Inefficient, money-squandering and in the end often plain old useless reality (Ekranoplan, anyone?) but they just seem to make things work....

However, I shall refrain from further comment until I see the paper version here :-D Has anyone thought of extrapolating at least a fair paper approximation of the design from screen grabs of that video? I thought you software whizkids could do that sort of stuff ;-)

plumdragon

[murphyaa]

I'm thinking about it. Can't find a 3-view, which means I gotta make it up, then figure out how to make it a paper model (lots of curves, and those intakes can't help with structural integrity of the model).